Nicholas James Bates (Nick Rhodes) Quotes
I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.

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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
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If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.
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God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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I love romance comics. I grew up with 'Archie' and got into other classic series as I got older, and I've been diving into 'Patsy Walker' since starting work on this project.
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'Cloud' and 'Flower' are very much egocentric about my own expression. 'Flow' is more utilitarian, and 'Journey' is more about collaboration between various creative voices in the team.
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They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
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If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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The thing that makes makeup or clothing or fashion beautiful is the fact that the person wearing them loves themselves and loves being able to kind of use them as artistic tools. And so if I was to give one piece of advice, it would be to find beauty in your core first before you go out into the world and find it in other ways.
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Speed can make up for a lot of things. And those boys can all run. You can't substitute that.
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Pay respect to your opponent.
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I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.